Box Turtles In Trouble

Third Box Turtle Conservation Workshop
November 9 - 10, 2007

Friday 9, November
Activities for Friday will take place at the
Londontown Public House, in Edgewater, Maryland.
Please see the Location page for address and directions.

8:00 - 8:45	Check In Complimentary Continental Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome and Introductory Remarks Chris Swarth, Jugbay Wetlands Sanctuary
9:00 - 9:45	Keynote address - Dr. John Iverson, Earlham College Twenty-seven years with the other Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) An overview of 28 years of field work on the natural history of ornate box turtles on the Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge in the sandhill of western Nebraska will be provided. Discussion will include the value of long-term studies of relatively undisturbed box turtle populations in providing benchmarks for comparison with data from populations increasingly impacted by humans. Attention will also be paid to those aspects of the natural history of box turtles that are most elusive (reproductive frequency, juvenile survivorship, population density, etc.), and the role that climate change may play in box turtle population dynamics. Finally, the increasingly important role of individuals (not academics nor governments) in the long-term survival and success of box turtles will also be addressed.
	Session I - Long-term Box Turtle Population Studies Moderator: Chris Swarth
9:45 - 10:05	Findings Along the Way: What We Learned (and Have Yet to Learn) After 18 Years of Radio Tracking Box Turtles in a Suburban Neighborhood Lehr Brisbin, Jr., Robert A. Kennamer, and Eric L. Peters
10:05 - 10:25	Observations From a Long-Term Study of the Desert Box Turtle in Arizona Marty Tuegel
10:25 - 10:45	Long-term Demography of the Eastern Box Turtle: What Can 47 Years of Data From a Protected Site in Southwestern Pennsylvania tell us? Tricia A. Miller, Walter Meshaka, and Andrew Mack
10:45 - 11:05	Morning Break with Refreshments
	Session II - Population Fragmentation and Isolation Moderator: Susan Hagood
11:05 - 11:25	Size, Structure and Habitat of a Population of Ornate Box Turtles in Fragmented Grasslands in Nebraska Mark M. Peyton
11:25 - 11:45	Characteristics of an Isolated Population of Terrapene ornata in Illinois S.L. Thol and F. J. Janzen
11:45 - 12:05	Population Structure and Behavioral Ecology of Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene c. carolina) in a Fragmented Habitat in South Carolina Mary Lang Edwards and David B. Ritland
12:05 - 12:25	Demography and Morphology of the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene c. carolina) in a Partly Agriculturally Disturbed Habitat, Letterkenny Army Depot, South-Central Pennsylvania Kristina Tarasan and Pablo R. Delis
12:25 - 1:25	Complimentary Lunch
	Session III - Box Turtle Ecology and Movements Moderator: Brian Wallace
1:25 - 1:45	Desert Box Turtles (Terrapene ornata luteola) in Arizona Cristina A. Jones
1:45 - 2:05	Ecology of Box Turtles in Central Massachusetts Lisabeth L. Willey
2:05 - 2:25	Radiotelemetry Studies of Hatchling, Juvenile, Resident and Relocated Adult, Three-Toed Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina triungius) in East Texas James F. Koukl, Alan Byboth, Laren Rispin, David Bolanowski, and Jason Keyes
2:25 - 2:45	Movements and Distribution of Terrapene carolina in a Large Urban Area, Rock Creek, Washington, D.C. Ken Ferebee
2:45 - 3:05	Long Term Movement Histories for Headstarted Juvenile, and Translocated Adult, Eastern Box Turtles in NW Pennsylvania Sanctuaries William Belzer and Susan Siebert
3:05 - 3:25	Afternoon Break with Refreshments
	Session IV - Population Assessment and Public Education Moderator: Sandy Barnett
3:25 - 3:45	Using Plot Surveys to Assess Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) Density and Site Fidelity Chris Swarth and Mike Quinlan
3:45 - 4:05	What do Search Experiments Show About How to Assess Box Turtle Habitats and Populations? Eugene R. Meyer
4:05 - 4:25	Population Survey of Eastern Box Turtles Prior to a Silviculture Clear-cut Leah Lavoie, Erin Burns, Charlie Burns, Katie Sloop, John Rucker, Whitney Bell, Tiffany Bell
4:25 - 4:45	The Unseen Effect of Box Turtle Races Alex B. Heeb
4:45 - 5:05	Collaboration for Research and Education Ann Berry Somers
	Friday Evening Activities
5:05 - 615	Poster Session with Complimentary Beer and Wine Reducing Box Turtle Mortality During Landscape Rehabilitation at Gettysburg National Military Park Carolyn Davis Husbandry Techniques For Captive Box Turtles: Maximizing Scientific Value of Natural History Observations Stephanie N. Foertmeyer and Joseph C. Mitchell A Preliminary Report on the Status if the Ornate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) in the Sandhills of Eastern Colorado E. Gangloff, AE. Nash, and J. Scupin Terrapene: Laws and Regulations Regarding Possession and Commercial Sale Evelyn Lee Corridors and Habitat Selection of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina, at Gifford Pinchot State Park, York County, PA Sally Ray Differences in the Home Range of Male and Female Eastern Box Turtles Chris Swarth and Mike Quinlan The ICC Turtle Project Susan Hagood
6:15 - 7:15	Banquet Dinner
7:15	Dinner Presentation by 2006 MacArthur Fellow, Author, Naturalist, and Artist David M. Carroll. Turtles: A Search for Wildness A naturalist-artist's reflections on more than half a century of following the places and seasons of the turtles. David M. Carroll will speak on his life-long connection with turtles; the origins of his quest, his insights and observations along the way, and the rewards and difficulties of his own natural history.

Saturday 10, November
Activities for Saturday will take place at
the Patuxent Research Center, in Laurel, Maryland.
Please see the Location page for address and directions.

8:30 - 9:15	Check In Complimentary Continental Breakfast
	Session V - Box Turtle Health Assessment and Conservation Moderator: John Groves
9:15 - 9:35	Health and Disease in the Conservation of the Eastern Box Turtle, Terrapene carolina carolina Matt Allender
9:35 - 9:55	Hematology and Serum Chemistry Results from a Box Turtle Population Jennifer Green, Glenn Olsen, and Paula Henry
10:00 - 12:00	Panel Discussion - an opportunity for all to ask questions of some of the experts in the field of box turtle ecology and conservation Panel Members Include John Groves - North Carolina Zoological Park Lehr Brisbin - Savannah River Ecology Laboratory Marty Tuegel - United States Geological Survey Ann Somers - University of North Carolina, Greensboro Chris Swarth - Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary John Iverson - Earlham College Scott Smith - Maryland Department of Natural Resources
12:00 - 1100	Complimentary Box Lunch
1:00 - 3:00	Field Trip An afternoon with Dr. Glenn Olsen at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. The field trip will focus on endangered species at the refuge and a tour of Dr. Olsen's laboratory and its uses in box turtle research.

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